“I don't want to renegotiate the tax pact or any of the agreements reached over the last year, though we need to look ahead”. To say it, during a long interview with the Financial Times, is Pierluigi Bersani, candidate for prime minister of the centre-left in the next political elections.
Bersani who, therefore, does not want to give up the work carried out by the Monti government in the last thirteen months, but who wants Europe, and consequently Italy, to also look at growth after the austerity measures: "I would like that Europe does focus on growth and fight the recession as tenaciously as it defended monetary union. Otherwise - warns the secretary of the Democratic Party - austerity alone could become risky"
A two-way path, therefore, the one mapped out by the centre-left candidate for prime minister, with one eye on budgetary policies and one eye on growth, all within a European perspective. A perspective within which one cannot fail to come to terms with Germany: “I have no intention of quarreling with Germany. I want Italy to have a serious, frank and friendly relationship with Germany on the basis of rational and realistic arguments”, resolutely rejecting the anti-German populist turn taken by Berlusconi's statements.
The link to the interview of Financial Times
